A full week for it ? At least we will be able to provide some running entries.I propose start from 19th to 25th included. Presents will be uploaded during the 26 only.Size limit: something correct for our days would be 15MB. Doing so we'll be able to provide musics and stuff.Timezone, wait, which timezone is Santa's timezone ?

EDIT: we have a few days going to build up some rules and vote for them. And announce it a bit.

Maybe let's start on Friday, 16th. That way we get one full weekend (17th and 18th) to work on a game. The weekend after that already is Christmas and people may travel to their families and so on and not have time for coding. And most of us won't have time during the week.

15 MB rule and uploading on 26th sound good to me

Was there anything like a speedhack-rule-o-matic with random extra rules?

Also, since numbers are low and completion rate is undetermined, I propose an alternative to the "Secret Santa" formula: Each entry must somehow include a gift for every participant in the competition.

What that means is up to your creative interpretation! But here are some naive examples:

- Your game involves collecting items, and there are special items specific to a entrant.- Your game involves playing as different characters, and the quest is modified/specialized for the entrant and you can "play as" Mark Oates or Dezero or Evert or whoever. - Your game is a snow generator: There are different presets for each entrant.

Apart from that there would be the normal rule-o-matic with the other rules

Also, since numbers are low and completion rate is undetermined, I propose an alternative to the "Secret Santa" formula: Each entry must somehow include a gift for every participant in the competition.

So instead of a single gift, we have to give a gift to everyone? I'm gonna be lucky to complete anything given a single gift much less one for everyone. I don't like that rule.

The way Oates wants it, you have to give a gift to everybody, instead of just a single gift to your secret santa. It complicates things, makes coding more effort, and makes me more unlikely to finish.

I would really rather have the secret santa thing than this get a gift for everybody thing. It takes time to make a good gift for one person, let alone everyone. We have 8 people already who say they're going to participate. That's 8 gifts and 8 good ideas everyone would have to come up with. It's a bad rule.